The article I choose for this week is called “The Fyre Fest guy was put in solitary confinement for taping a podcast in prison.” This article was posted to Mic.com on October 26.

The article talks about Billy McFarland, the mastermind behind the Fyre Festival scam of 2017. If you don’t know about the Fyre Festival, it was an event that McFarland created and was supposed to be a music festival in the Bahamas. When guests arrived they realized that there would be no guest artists, no five star food, and only tents to sleep in. It was a disaster and went viral on social media and Hulu and Netflix both put out documentaries about the Fyre Festival in 2019.

McFarland is currently serving 6 years in an Ohio penitentiary. He has been charged with several counts of wire fraud. Now, he is in solitary confinement for up to three months for taping a podcast from prison. His lawyer says nothing he did was illegal, but the feds punished him anyways.

I think this article is aimed at people who follow news around Billy McFarland and the Fyre Festival. I watched the Fyre Festival documentaries and I enjoyed watching them a lot so I like when I see news surrounded them. I like to know what McFarland is up to now. I honestly might listen to the podcast because I’m very curious to see what he has to say about everything.

I think this article did a good job of getting its point across. There were several quotes from McFarland’s lawyer and about the current situation but there was also enough background information so that if you didn’t really know about the Fyre Festival you could still read the article and know what is going on.